Avatar Dharma Bending: The Journey to Collective Heroism

Part 1: Setting the Mythopoetic Stage:

This piece is about Resourcing,

Seeing through the lens of Poisons and Antidotes,

Priming the path towards a study of ‘Avatar: The last airbender’ as a depth psychology crash course on emergent Self, Epic synergistic friendships and meeting the calling of Collective Heroism required for these times.

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To begin, allow me to set a healing arts tone for you, the (hopefully) inspired reader.

(And if your feeling shitty right now this is meant for you too)

If destiny and good fortune have placed you in a moment of calm coherence, I invite you to read this piece as a practice of deepening. Enrich the goodness that is already present.

If, on the other hand, despite being fully committed, and in the throes of executing your inspired vision, and find yourself oscillating daily between:

• Information overwhelm (it happens quickly, doesn’t it?)
• Inspired purposefulness #Woot!
• Losing the distraction game with regrettable trivialities that you try to justify but can’t quite shake off… again … and again… and again….
• Gratitude for the incredible life you have and the boundless opportunities for creation!
• And then back to feeling overwhelmed by existential angst and on the brink…

Yea… That roller coaster…

If that is you… I invite you to read this piece through the lens of Resourcing.

Resourcing is the beautiful art of remembering, in challenging moments, to become receptive to imminent beneficial qualities. Resources are life-giving, centering, grounding supports found within ourselves, in relationships, and in the broader ecology of life. Remembering to resource, particularly when a less-than-useful pattern is active, is essential to living as a healing artist and a high-performer.

To resource is to remember and to become receptive again to the beneficial nourishment available right now. I’ll be the first to admit that I seldom do exercises suggested in readings… But hey, it’s worth a shot, right? Maybe just try breathing for a second, lol.

~ From Resourcing ~ Another interesting perspective to read from: Poisons and antidotes.

Briefly, You can take the view that there are poisons in the information ecology that are harmful, and they lead towards confusion and pathology,

…And there are antidotes. life giving, clarifying and serving the restoration of intrinsic wholeness.

Antidotes are of the essence of Compassion, Wisdom, Awake-Awareness and propagate countless beneficial qualities.

The key question being: In an ecology of mind … What is poison? what is antidote? And what is Alchemy? #Koanzbaby 

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So, onward ho! To Avatar Dharma Bending and the era of Collective Heroism!

This piece is really about the journey towards actualizing our collective heroism. It’s about the monumental shift in our ontological center of gravity as we discern which aspects of culture are influenced by short-sighted, self-absorbed, and poorly incentivized individuals – the #DelusionsOf”SelfMade” and the tragic miscalculations of powerful yet hurt man-boys.

And which aspects of culture are shaped by a reality-based view of interconnected co-emergence… And, as this piece is focused, really exploring… who is embracing the coherent tribalism of shared heroism, where all gifts, medicines, and crafts are elevated by a shared quest that resonates wholeheartedly with the calling of our times?

I think its very important to our shared destiny to role up our sleeves and get into a deeper exploration of how healthy, individuated “I’s” live in harmony with their relations and actually attune to a mythological-mythopoetic center of gravity that is far more fascinating, effective, and intriguing than the typical “hero’s quest” narratives we often encounter.

Part two of this piece will delve into “Avatar: The Last Airbender” as a depth psychology focal point for deconstructing narcissistically organized structures of Self that prioritize the individual to the detriment of the collective. AKA Piecing the veil of some harmful delusions and applying the antidote.

It will also address the near enemy of “immeshed and immature ‘I’s” that become confused within incoherent and tragically aligned tribalism. AKA unhealthy family systems at play in the collective, and how we might go about correcting that.

If I have done my job, and you take what I’m pointing to seriously, I will have effectively pointed towards a key antidote of our times…

Empowering free agents of the infinite game to play their parts(#FullPower!),

lucid-awake to the dreamlike nature of perception,

Offering their antidotes and gifts to the afflictions of culture with humble reverence to the myriad eco-field factors and mysteries that inform their craft.

And we will get to explore the archetypal schema of collective heroism. Or, how to build strong, coherent relationships that make dream teams come alive in synergistic and shared quests to overthrow the “fire lords” of our time.

So stay tuned for part 2, where we journey towards the Dharma of Avatar: The Last Airbender and the path to collective heroism.

~DHR